Smartvue Corp. announced today at the 2012 Electronic Security Expo held at the Nashville Convention Center its new Cloudvue surveillance service will be powered by Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Azure.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

With the move, Nashville-based Smartvue will more effectively help organizations securely take advantage of cloud computing and storage by delivering live, recorded and stored network video surveillance, Smartvue founder and CEO Martin Renkis said in a release.

"For over a decade, Smartvue has made the world a safer place with simple to use cloud-powered video management systems," said Renkis (pictured). "Our move to Windows Azure is the next step in our goal of making Cloudvue a major provider of video surveillance services worldwide."

Helene Love Snell, director of Microsoft Server and Tools Business, said Smartvue's use of Windows Azure as the platform for the company's video surveillance technology gives Smartvue customers global scalability for their security and visual business intelligence.